Book contents
- The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals
- Global Health Histories
- The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Making Medicines Modern, Making Medicines Colonial
- 2 Medicines in Colonial (Public) Health
- 3 The Mirage of Mass Distribution: State Quinine and Essential Medicines
- 4 The Many Lives of Medicines in the Private Market
- 5 Crimes and Misdemeanors: Transactions and Transgressions in the Therapeutic Market
- 6 Learning Effects: Lived Experiences, Pharmaceutical Publicity, and the Roots of Selective Demand
- 7 Medicines as Vectors of Modernization and Medicalization
- 8 Therapeutic Pluralism under Colonial Rule
- Conclusion: From Colonial Medicines to Postcolonial Health
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion: From Colonial Medicines to Postcolonial Health
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 August 2019
- The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals
- Global Health Histories
- The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Making Medicines Modern, Making Medicines Colonial
- 2 Medicines in Colonial (Public) Health
- 3 The Mirage of Mass Distribution: State Quinine and Essential Medicines
- 4 The Many Lives of Medicines in the Private Market
- 5 Crimes and Misdemeanors: Transactions and Transgressions in the Therapeutic Market
- 6 Learning Effects: Lived Experiences, Pharmaceutical Publicity, and the Roots of Selective Demand
- 7 Medicines as Vectors of Modernization and Medicalization
- 8 Therapeutic Pluralism under Colonial Rule
- Conclusion: From Colonial Medicines to Postcolonial Health
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Exploring the logics and practices of pharmaceutical production, distribution, and consumption in colonial Vietnam, this book shows that therapeutic consumption practices of therapeutic pluralism and self-medication, which are now prevalent in this location, emerged in the early twentieth century, and became well established before the end of French rule. This does not mean that the (colonial) past can fully elucidate or explain the present, much less generate solutions. Nor can the Vietnamese history of colonial medicines serve as a template for understanding a global process of pharmaceuticalization that took off in the 1950s and 1960s with the diffusion of antibiotics. Pharmaceuticals entered Vietnam in a very particular context.
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- The Colonial Life of PharmaceuticalsMedicines and Modernity in Vietnam, pp. 254 - 262Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019